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Copy of the central panel in the Prado in Madrid. Several images of Imitators of the Central Panel in the Prado are known: In the Museum of Visual Arts in Budapest; at the Wellcome Library in London, at the Count de Pommereu in Paris, at the Germanisches National Museum in Nuremberg, the State Hermitage Museum in Sint Petersburg, an Unknown Art Gallery in Berlin in 1927.
History:
1902-1922 - C.L. Chardon in Brussels. - 1922 M. Helbing in Frankfurt am Main - Before 1931- Hubert Promnitz in Berlin - Dr. Herbert Puttiger in Frankfurt am Main - from 1990 Private collection in Furt - was from 1991 in Germanisches National Museum in Neurenberg. Was part of the exhibition 'Hieronymus Bosch and his Pictural World in the 16th and 17th century' in he Gemaldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen in Berlin 2016/2017. Also as a preview to the exhibition Garden of Earthly Delights (26 July to 1 December 2019), the eponymous painting from the school of Hieronymus Bosch will be on display at the Gropius Bau on weekends between 27 April and 19 May 2019. during the Berliner Festspiele.
Literature:
George Hulin de Loo, Exposition des Tableaux Flamands des XIV, XV et XVI Siècles, Catalogue Critique, Ghent, 1902,page 77, no. 289 (as a good old copy of Hieronymus Bosch). Max J. Friedländer, ‘Die Brugger Leihhausstellung von 1902’, Reprtoriumfür Kunstwissenshaft 26, 1903, pp. 66-91, 147-156. Maurice G. Gossart, Jérôme Bosch: le “faiseur de Diables” de Bois-le-Duc, Lille, 1907, page 62, footnote 1 and page 286, no. 5, “Collection Charles-Louis Cardon” listed under Bruxelles Musée Royal. Paul Lafond, Hieronymus Bosch: Son Art, Son Influence, Ses Disciples, Brussels and Paris, 1914, page 46. Max J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, Vol. V, Leiden 1969, page 88, no. 110b (as a good copy). Suzanne Urbach, ‘La Copie du “Jardin des Délices” de Jérôme Bosch au Musée des Beaux-Arts’, Bulletin du MuséeHongrois des Beaux-Arts, Budapest, 1969, no. 32-33, pp. 45-62, reproduced, page 58, fig. 44. Gerd Unverfehrt, Hieronymus Bosch: Die Rezeption seiner Kunst im frühen 16. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1980, page 290,cat. no. 161d (a) under ‘Other Versions’. GNM-Akten 5834 (‘Papers relating to the exhibition of the copy of the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by HieronymusBosch’), Nuremberg 1991. Gerd Unverfehrt, ‘Hieronymus Boschs Garten der Lüste in einer alten Wiederholung,’ in Germanisches Nationalmuseum MonthlyBulletin, March 1991, pp. 958-62, illustrated, page 959. Ildiko Ember and Zsuzsa Urbach, Old Masters’ Gallery, Summary Catalogue, vol. 2: Early Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish paintings, Budapest 2000, page 25, inv. no. 1323 (listed as a comparison for our picture; version 2 and 5 both seem to refer to our picture). Pilar Silva Maroto, El Jardín de las Delicias de El Bosco: Copias, Estudio Técnico y Restauración, Madrid, 2000,exh. cat. no. 4, as by “Anonymous artist, before 1568”. Roger van Schoute and Monique Verboomen, Jérôme Bosch, Tournai 2000, page 218, cat. no. 30c. Carmen Garrido and Roger van Schoute, Bosch at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2001, page 191, Fig. 77. Matthijs Ilsink and Jos Koldeweij, Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, 2016, page 185, no. 49. Salomon in S. Kemperdick et al., Hieronymus Bosch und seine bildwelt im 16. Und 17. Jahrhundert, exhibition catalogue,Berlin 2016, pp. 107-109, cat. No. 5, reproduced. Nicholas Hall, Dawn Ades, Olivier Berggruen and J. Patrice Marandel, Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art, exh. cat. New York, 2019.
Source:
From the catalogue of the exhibition
